hi ya de-install/remove postgres ( yoou pobably have tons of pending emails ? )
what does "top -i" show as running - you should be able to identify all those jobs listed if you're not talking to windoze boxes, - remove samba if you are using other windoze boxes, check /etc/samba/smb.conf if you're not exporting this box to toher pc.. - remove nfs-server if you are using it... check /etc/exports c ya alvin On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Andrew Perrin wrote: > Greetings- > > On a new box I just built, the load average has been 3.00 for a couple of > days now, with really no significant work being done. The box is a pretty > powerful one (AMD XP 2200+, 1GB RAM, plenty of storage) and it's really > not doing anything most of the time - email, mozilla, openoffice, and > emacs usually, except when I run R to do some statistical heavy > lifting. Any idea why it might be at load average of 3.00? Here's the top > of top: > > 21:57:26 up 2 days, 50 min, 5 users, load average: 3.00, 3.00, 3.00 > 74 processes: 73 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped > CPU states: 0.2% user, 1.0% system, 0.0% nice, 98.8% idle > Mem: 1030176K total, 328432K used, 701744K free, 19920K buffers > Swap: 1951888K total, 0K used, 1951888K free, 150596K cached > > PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND > 337 root 13 -10 271M 15M 3900 S < 0.5 1.4 0:18 XFree86 > 13325 root 15 0 960 960 748 R 0.1 0.0 0:00 top > 1 root 8 0 488 488 424 S 0.0 0.0 0:03 init > 2 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 keventd > 3 root 19 19 0 0 0 SWN 0.0 0.0 0:00 > ksoftirqd_CPU0 > 4 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kswapd > 5 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 bdflush > 6 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:02 kupdated > 51 root 9 0 0 0 0 DW 0.0 0.0 0:00 khubd > 130 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 eth0 > 135 daemon 9 0 428 428 352 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 portmap > 141 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 rpciod > 142 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 lockd > 197 root 9 0 784 784 668 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 syslogd > 200 root 9 0 1172 1172 424 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 klogd > 207 root 9 0 692 692 596 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 rpc.statd > 210 dictd 9 0 10084 9.8M 9080 S 0.0 0.9 0:00 dictd > 218 root 8 0 760 760 676 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 inetd > 223 root 9 0 744 744 652 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 lpd > 261 postgres 8 0 1692 1692 1612 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 postmaster > 263 postgres 9 0 1672 1672 1620 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 postmaster > 264 postgres 9 0 1728 1728 1624 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 postmaster > 273 root 9 0 1236 1236 796 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 nmbd > 275 root 9 0 1244 1244 772 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 smbd > 281 root 8 0 1276 1276 1064 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 sshd > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin > Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill > [EMAIL PROTECTED] * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]